BOB K Sound & Recording

01/29/2024

Professional Photographer friend and man-about-town has Photoshopped the photo I posted on National DJ Day and colorized it. Unfortunately, It still looks like the same Geek as before. Ha ha! 😁

09/07/2023

Throwback again to 1st paying radio job and a listener, who I never knew. He recently found me on social media and sent me this relic from ancient times.

03/29/2020

This is fantastic!!!

08/31/2019

A recent sound gig with the Michelle Cruz Band...

03/10/2019

If you're a fan of The Beach Boys "God Only Knows," like me, you may find this interesting:

From The Wrecking Crew page:
On this date March 10, 1966 the instrumental tracks for "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys were recorded at United Western Recorders in Hollywood. The song was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, and produced by Wilson. It was engineered by Chuck Britz.

The instrumental part of the song took 20 takes to achieve what is the master take of the song. Present on the day of the instrumental recording was Carl Wilson on twelve-string guitar among other session musicians. A strip of masking tape was placed over the strings of a piano while the bottoms of two plastic orange juice bottles were used for percussion.

Brian said that there were 23 musicians present during the "God Only Knows" sessions, though only 16 are credited as being present on the actual take that was used for the final song.

Per band archivist Craig Slowinski, here is a list of personnel on the track.

Bruce Johnston – backing vocals
Brian Wilson – backing vocals
Carl Wilson – lead vocals, 12-string electric guitar
Hal Blaine – drums and sleigh bells
Jesse Erlich – cello
Carl Fortina – accordion
Jim Gordon – plastic orange juice cups
Bill Green – flute and alto flute
Leonard Hartman – clarinet and bass clarinet
Jim Horn – flute and alto flute
Carol Kaye – 12-string electric guitar
Larry Knechtel– harpsichord
Leonard Malarsky – violin
Terry Melcher – tambourine
Jay Migliori – clarinet
Frank Morocco – accordion
Ray Pohlman – electric bass guitar
Don Randi– tack piano with taped strings
Alan Robinson – French horn
Lyle Ritz – upright bass
Sid Sharp – violin
Darrel Terwilliger – viola

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group God Only Knows (Remastered) · The Beach Boys Pet Sounds ℗ A Capitol Records Release; ℗ 1997 Capitol Records, LLC...

02/13/2019

If you're at all interested in audio recording, I highly recommend this book by iconic recording engineer (and my idol) Al Schmitt, who is universally admired and respected. A wonderful mentor and master at helping musicians from Bob Dylan, to Johnny Cash, to Lady Gaga, to Paul McCartney capture their finest performances. It's also a great textbook for microphone selection. And, a very easy read...